Walt Whitman High School

young and his grandmother raised him. She got him into literature and education; she was one of the most important influences on him. He moved around a lot when he was young, due to his parents divorce, but remained a good student and graduated high school. After this he traveled the world and worked in different places, all the things he

The first stanza revolves around the word “gymnastic” due to its symbol of flexibility. This word is a connotation since when thinking about gymnastic you think of flexibility and movement. Walt Whitman advises everyone including himself to allow change in one’s self. In lines 1-2 “Myself and mine gymnastic ever,To stand the cold or heat-- to take good aim with a gun-- to sail a boat-- to manage horses-- to beget superb children” the speaker explains that we should be open to new ideas to allow

titled, “I Hear America Singing”. The other poem is titled, “Let America Be America Be America Again.” Let’s keep on reading to find out more information between these two poems. Let’s start off with the first poem mentioned in the introduction. Walt Whitman is the author of this poem. This poem is a free verse poem. It’s purpose is to celebrate workers and success. The basic tone of this poem is patriotic. The theme is individual workers, liberties that make America great. Now, in other hand we have

limited amount of words and this pattern has carried over to websites like Buzzfeed—they tend to present information in short lists. I believe it is doubly as important for students to read longer works. While students were exposed to literature in high school, it is important for adults to understand how to analyze and criticize longer works of any nature. It is important they build

noticed being shared among the poems read was equality. In Walt Whitman’s “[I celebrate myself, and sing myself]” it’s written around the time of the American Civil War and during this period there were high tensions among many people concerning slavery. When Whitman writes “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air, born here of parents from here from parents the same, and their parents the same…” (p.744), I felt Whitman broke the matter concerning slavery into a more logical

talking about Clifton’s early years and where she was born in. She had born in June 27, 1936, Depew, New york. After receiving her high school diploma in 1953 from Fosdick-Masten Park High School. Clifton went to study in Howard University in 1955 then went to State University of New York to pursue her education. Later in

2014) Meg Whitman is the only woman that has lead two major United States public companies. This phenomenal woman has had the pleasure of holding the title of CEO for not only eBay but also Hewlett-Packard. Margret Whitman, better known as Meg was born on August 4th, 1956 to Margret Cushing and Hedrick Hallett Whitman, Jr. in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Whitman is the youngest of three children. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom and her father ran his own loan business. Whitman graduated high school

I remember learning about Ralph Waldo Emerson in my literature class in my senior year of high school.Emerson is an amazing writer of all time. Emerson essay about compensation and how he related it to karma was very creative. The term what goes around comes around is very true in lots of ways. If you treat someone badly you will soon one day get that same treatment. For example, my mom had this close friend, she uses to laugh at someone with a certain type of condition. When she had a child her

walks out and still in pain, he observes all the detail of the new things surrounding him, the breeze, smells and his shadow, close to him is a river and he manages to see for the first time the true himself. We can be whatever we want to be, as Walt Whitman claims in his poem Song of Myself “I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise. Regardless of others, ever regardful of others” (492). In other words, we are an essence that can be molded into anything, just as the prisoner of the

grandmother, until she died in Langston's teenage years. After, he lived with his mother and eventually living in Cleveland, Ohio. At that point in time, he wrote poems. He was introduced to works by Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, who would influence his own poems. In 1920, he graduated from high school, and around 1921, he got his poem called "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" printed by The Crisis magazine, which was admired. In 1925, his poem, "The Weary Blues", which was promoted by Vachel Lindsay, won